''Rhythm and Blues Revue'' is a 1955 American concert film directed by Joseph Kohn and
Leonard Reed
Leonard Reed (January 7, 1907 in Lightning Creek, Oklahoma – April 5, 2004 in West Covina, California) was an American tap dancer, co-creator with his partner, Willie Bryant, of the famous Shim Sham Shimmy (Goofus) tap dance routine.
He was s ...
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Summary
''Rhythm and Blues Revue'' is a plotless variety show, one of several compiled for theatrical exhibition from the made-for-television short films produced by
Snader and Studio Telescriptions, with newly filmed host segments by
Willie Bryant
William Stevens Bryant (August 30, 1908 – February 9, 1964) was an American jazz bandleader, vocalist, and disc jockey, known as the "Mayor of Harlem".
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, while growing up he took trumpet l ...
. Originally 86 minutes, the "short" version available on public domain collections and websites is missing a reel.
Producer Ben Frye also released the film
Harlem Rock 'n' Roll the year prior.
Cast
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Lionel Hampton
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Faye Adams
Faye Adams (born Fanny Tuell, May 22, 1923) is an American singer who recorded and performed rhythm and blues and gospel from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. She had several chart hits in the early 1950s, before retiring from the music b ...
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Bill Bailey
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Herb Jeffries
Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014) was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
He starred in several low-budget "ra ...
*Freddie & Flo (
Freddie Lucas and
Florence Hill)
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Amos Milburn
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The Larks The Larks were an American vocal group, active in the early 1950s. They were not the same group as the Los Angeles-based Larks (originally The Meadowlarks) featuring Don Julian, nor the Philadelphia-based group The Four Larks.
Original members
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(David Bowers,
Orville Brooks and
Gene Mumford)
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Sarah Vaughan
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Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...
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Big Joe Turner
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Delta Rhythm Boys
The Delta Rhythm Boys was an American vocal group active from 1934 to 1987.
The group was formed at Langston University in Langston, Oklahoma, in 1934 by Carl Jones, Traverse Crawford, Otha Lee Gaines, and Kelsey Pharr. They moved to Dillard U ...
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Martha Davis
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Little Buck
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Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's music career began after he dropped out of school at the age of 15, and continued f ...
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Mantan Moreland
Mantan Moreland (September 3, 1902 – September 28, 1973) was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. He starred in numerous films. His daughter Marcella Moreland appeared as a child actress in several films.
E ...
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Nipsey Russell
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Cab Calloway
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Ruth Brown
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Willie Bryant
William Stevens Bryant (August 30, 1908 – February 9, 1964) was an American jazz bandleader, vocalist, and disc jockey, known as the "Mayor of Harlem".
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, while growing up he took trumpet l ...
Soundtrack
*Amos Milburn - "
Bad Bad Whiskey"
*Bill Bailey (dancing) - "
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" is a post-World War I popular song, with lyrics by American actor Eugene Lockhart, and music composed by Canadian-born concert pianist Ernest Seitz in 1918. He later claimed he conceived the refrain when ...
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*The Larks - "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise"
*Nat King Cole - "
Calypso Blues"
*Delta Rhythm Boys - "
Dry Bones"
*Faye Adams - "Every Day"
*Martha Davis & Her Spouse - "Goodbye Honey, Goodbye"
*Count Basie Combo - "
Basie's Conversation", "
One O'Clock Jump
"One O'Clock Jump" is a jazz standard, a 12-bar blues instrumental, written by Count Basie in 1937.
Background
The melody derived from band members' riffs—Basie rarely wrote down musical ideas, so Eddie Durham and Buster Smith helped him cry ...
*Ruth Brown - "
It's Raining Teardrops From My Eyes"
*Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra - "Vibe Boogie", "Bongo Interlude"
*Cab Calloway And His Orchestra - "
Minnie the Moocher
"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz- scat song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies. "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed (" scat") lyrics (for example, "Hi De Hi De Hi ...
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*Sarah Vaughan - "Perdido"
*Big Joe Turner - "
Shake, Rattle and Roll
"Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone (usually credited as Charles Calhoun, his songwriting name). The original recording by Big Joe Turner is ranked number 127 on the ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of The 500 Grea ...
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*Herb Jeffries - "
In My Heart (There's a Song)"
See also
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Rock 'n' Roll Revue
Notes
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1955 films
American documentary films
Concert films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
1955 documentary films
American black-and-white films
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